Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book
CHAPTER VI
1800-1825
Her morals then the Matron read, Studious to teach her Children dear, And they by love or Duty led, With Pleasure read. _A Mother's Remarks_, Philadelphia, 1810
Mama! see what a pretty book At Day's papa has bought, That I may at its pictures look, And by its words be taught.